According to the Huffington Post, an interview with Dick Armey (hardly an unimpeachable source), Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich shared details of their respective extra-marital affairs over cigars and wine at the White House. The details are here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/28/bill-clinton-newt-gingrich-affairs_n_775335.html
There was allegedly a deal in the works to negotiate a deal over the impasse that led to the government shutdowns, one that involved Clinton conceding on the rate of growth in Medicare spending, but it was ditched when news of the Lewinsky "affair" went public.
Dick Armey is hardly a reliable source, but you never know . . . Of all the "what ifS" presidential history poses, among the more tempting ones is "what if" there was no Monica to deliver Bill his pizza in the Oval Office due to the government shutdown? The impeachment poisoned the partisan well and ruined the final three years of Clinton's eight as a platform for pushing "third way" ideas that, today, are truly needed.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know that I can believe a bond between Newt and Bill. Because if that were the case, I feel like Clinton would have made his knowledge public after his impeachment began. Clinton made the unintelligent choice of the Lewinsky affair, but would he have stayed silent with a chance to even the score? What if he did know of Newt's infidelity? What if he had made that knowledge public? Would Clinton's last three years in office have been more successful instead of the overshadowed debacle in which they were? Darn pizza anyway...
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